New Identity Challenges Demand New Security Tools
SC Media, Monday, February 3rd, 2025
There's been considerable talk in cybersecurity over the years about 'attack surface management.'
But this talk often excludes one of the most fast-growing and vulnerable components of any organization's attack surface: its identities. The importance of identity security has become painfully apparent for security professionals as threat actors focus on phishing and other identity-based attacks to penetrate networks and move laterally across the organization to access applications and compromise data sources.
This is why it's not unusual for security thought leaders to trumpet 'identity-first' strategies and treat identity as 'the new perimeter.'